HMS Unicorn
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Eleven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Unicorn, after the mythological creature, the unicorn:
- HMS Unicorn was a 36-gun ship captured from Scotland in 1544 and sold in 1555.
- HMS Unicorn was a 56-gun ship launched in 1634 and sold in 1687.
- HMS Unicorn (or Little Unicorn) was an 18-gun fire ship originally in Dutch service as the Eenhoorn. She was captured in 1665 and expended on 4 June 1666, on the fourth day of the Four Days' Battle.[1]
- HMS Unicorn was a 6-gun purchased in 1666 and sunk as a blockship at Chatham on 11 June 1667, together with five other vessels, in a futile attempt to block the Dutch from advancing up the River Medway.[2]
- HMS Unicorn was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1748 and broken up in 1771.
- HMS Unicorn was a 20-gun post ship launched in 1776. The French frigate Andromaque captured her[3] on 4 October 1780[4] and HMS Resource recaptured her in April 1781. Unicorn was broken up at Deptford in 1787.
- HMS Unicorn was a 36-gun fifth rate launched in 1782. She was renamed HMS Thalia in 1783 and was broken up in 1814.
- HMS Unicorn was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1794 and broken up in 1815.
- HMS Unicorn is a Leda-class frigate, launched in 1824 and converted to a powder hulk in 1860. She was a Royal Naval Reserve drill ship from 1873. She was renamed Unicorn II in 1913 and Cressy from 1941 until 1959. She was handed over to a preservation society in 1968 and is preserved in Dundee as a museum ship.
- HMS Unicorn was an aircraft maintenance carrier, launched in 1941 and broken up in 1960.
- HMS Unicorn was an Upholder-class submarine launched in 1992. She was sold to Canada in 2001, who renamed her HMCS Windsor.
See also
- HMCS Unicorn, a Canadian Forces Naval Reserve division in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
- Unicorn (ship), a fictional Royal Navy ship featured in The Adventures of Tintin.
Battle Honours
- Armada 1588
- Cadiz 1596
- Porto Farina 1655
- Santa Cruz 1657
- Lowestoft 1665
- Orfordness 1666
- Sole Bay 1672
- Schooneveld 1673
- Texel 1673
- "Vestale" 1761
- "Tribune" 1796
- Basque Roads 1809
- Salerno 1943
- Okinawa 1945
- Korea 1950-53
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